Camera.



L. L. CLARKE.

CAMERA.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG.19, 1914.

1,132,070. Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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CAMERA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16,- 1915.

Application filed August 19, 1914. Serial No. 857,435.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS L. CLARKE, a citizen of the United States, and'a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of NewYork, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cameras, ofwhich the following is aspecification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

It is the object of this invention to provide devices whereby a recordor data may be produced upon the sensitive film adjacent to eachexposure, either upon the edge, end or one corner of the exposure, asmay be desired.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a camera, partly broken awayand partly in section, embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is adetail'showing the surface'bearing the data which is upon the film.

In the drawings 1 represents the side of 2 the bellows,

3 the lens casing, 42 the drop front, 5, 5, the

spool centers, 6 the handle, 7 the sensitized film, 8 the black paperfor the film.

9 is a small short focus lens set in a casing 10. It is provided with aslide 11 and an exposure opening'12 which is in registration with thepart'of thefilm upon which it is desired the record shall be made. Inthe example shown the matter to be recorded will be produced in theblank space between adjoining negatives or in one corner of thenegative.

13 (see Fig. 2) is a frame, preferably hinged, as-at 14, to the dropfront 4 and adapted to receive a card or similar article 15 as shown,upon which the writing 17 matter to be recorded may be produced.

It will of course be understood that all joints between the bellows andthe body of the camera are made light tight as usual and also that alljoints between the supplemental casing and the adjoining parts are madelight tight in order that no part of the sensitive surface be lightstruck. Any suitable device for accomplishing this lighttightness, 'manyof which are now well known to this art, may be employed. Their benecessary,

to be produced as a record special construction will depend, upon thepreference of the maker and also to some degree upon the shape and sizeof the casing for the supplemental lens.

The operation is having been made, the operator writes upon the cardsuch data or matter as he desires to be recorded and places the card inthe frame 13. Thereupon the slide 11 being drawn for such length of timeasmay the writing onthe card is through the lens 9 upon the slde or inthe corner of the exposure as the case may be, in a manner wellunderstood, which upon development'will appear on the negative.

It will be understood by those who are familiar with this art that theconstruction illustrated and described herein is one form only of manyin which the invention may be embodied and that it is adapted to use inmany forms of camera other than the folding film-roll cameraillustrated. I therefor do not limit myself to the details shown anddescribed.

I claim: v 1

1. A folding camera having in addition to the lens which registers withthe field of the camera, a supplemental lens which registers with a partof the sensitive surface, a separate dark slide for the supplementallens and means upon the foldin photographed a separate dark slide forthe supplemental lens. I

In testimony whereof 'I have signed my name to thisspecification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEWIS L. CLARKE. Witnesses:

HARRY Smmnnnrz, ROY MURGHIE.

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